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Creative Technologies Lecturer Pool
Position overview
Position title: Pre-six Creative Technologies LecturerApplication Window
Open date: July 3, 2024
Most recent review date: Friday, Aug 2, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: Saturday, Jun 14, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The Creative Technologies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an ongoing pool of lecturers who may be appointed to teach lower and/or upper division undergraduate courses either during the academic year or Summer Session. Possible course topics include: practices and tools of digital design (including sound design, multimedia design, web-design, and animation); media studies; justice-, decolonization-, anti-racist, transgender and feminist approaches to design and media technology; histories and cultures of digital media and/or interdisciplinarity; interdisciplinary arts and design practices; creative coding; mechatronics; playable media studies and game theory; three-dimensional design; immersive reality; machine creativity and machine learning; and natural language modeling for arts and design.
Creative Technologies is a justice-focused online- and hybrid-modality interdisciplinary arts and design major, led by faculty in Art, Music, and PPD (Performance, Play, and Design). Its curriculum features innovative teaching and learning environments, paired with an emphasis on emerging arts and design technologies and the active roles of artists and designers in cultivating a just and ethical society. Our courses intersect faculty commitments to justice, accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion—along cultural, gender, racial, economic, and social dimensions—with commitments to expanding access to innovative arts education, re-contextualizing and challenging Western and other hegemonic frameworks for art and design, and amplifying marginalized and historically silenced voices.
Preference will be given to candidates with any of the following qualifications:
- Experience with synchronous and/or asynchronous online learning environments and teaching modalities.
- Experience with justice-focused pedagogy.
- Experience with universal design and accessibility, disability justice-informed teaching.
Internal candidates will be given priority consideration.
Creative Technologies: https://creative.ucsc.edu/
Qualifications
- M.F.A., doctorate, or equivalent (terminal) foreign degree; or at least two years of creative work experience resulting in publications, performances, exhibitions, or recordings that reflect a national and/or international profile of accomplishment.
- Demonstrated record of having taught at least one course at a college or university.
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Statement of Teaching
Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement addressing your understanding of the barriers facing traditionally underrepresented groups and your past and/or future contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching and professional or public service. Candidates are urged to review guidelines on statements before preparing their application.
Student evaluations of teaching (1 required course set) - Special consideration may be given to those candidates who can give student evaluations of teaching in online or hybrid-modality courses. An evaluation set from at least one course is required; up to three may be submitted.
Student evaluations of teaching (1 of 2 optional course sets) - Special consideration may be given to those candidates who can give student evaluations of teaching in online or hybrid-modality courses. An evaluation set from at least one course is required; up to three may be submitted.
(Optional)Student evaluations of teaching (2 of 2 optional course sets) - Special consideration may be given to those candidates who can give student evaluations of teaching in online or hybrid-modality courses. An evaluation set from at least one course is required; up to three may be submitted.
(Optional)
- 3-5 letters of reference required
Applications must include confidential letters of recommendation*. Note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System.
*All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at http://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm.
Help contact: espitz@ucsc.edu
About UC Santa Cruz
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